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Bald Eagle Research Paper

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Prior to the 1990’s the golden eagle didn’t exist on the channel islands probably because of the existence of the bald eagle on the islands ( they competed on the same habitats). The bald eagle prevented the golden eagle from nesting on the channel islands and unintentionally saved the lives of the island foxes. In the 1960s the pesticide DDT was introduced into farming and contaminated the fish that the bald eagle was feeding on, between the 1960’s to the 1990s bald eagles became endangered because of the pesticide. Bald eagles came to consume DDT because of how carelessly the humans used the pesticide, as a result the population of the Bald Eagle dropped dramatically. Ranchers from the mainland started bringing sheep and feral pigs to the

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